Snow Tiger

Dear Nina,

SNOW TIGER is a beautiful story – a story of courage, honour and integrity.
I really enjoyed your skilful and vivid exposition of ancient Japanese culture. Everything about this story felt so authentic and genuine, viz. the characters, their thoughts and mannerisms, the dialogue and the plot. The writing is rich and evocative, and the manuscript bears the hallmark of a competent storyteller. Although I’m not a fan of historical fiction, I still read on for 5 chapters. Having been introduced to all four lead characters, I now look forward to reading the rest of this wonderful story.
The narrative is so visual, it was almost like watching a film. My rating: 6 stars.

Best regards,
AGC

Thanks so much. I feel very honored to have such a compliment from you, a very skilled writer. Best, Nina Boal

Dear Nina,

SNOW TIGER is a beautiful story – a story of courage, honour and integrity.
I really enjoyed your skilful and vivid exposition of ancient Japanese culture. Everything about this story felt so authentic and genuine, viz. the characters, their thoughts and mannerisms, the dialogue and the plot. The writing is rich and evocative, and the manuscript bears the hallmark of a competent storyteller. Although I’m not a fan of historical fiction, I still read on for 5 chapters. Having been introduced to all four lead characters, I now look forward to reading the rest of this wonderful story.
The narrative is so visual, it was almost like watching a film. My rating: 6 stars.

Best regards,
AGC

I will give more comments later. I have had you on my bookshelf for a few days. I want to digest more of your book so I am keeping it on my watchlist to revisit at a later date. Meantime, I hope you will take a look at December Gold. Although it is a World War II novel to modern day 9/11 it takes up an interesting take on a Christian Mission Station in Japan and a Christian Japanese soldier.

I thought I would come back for another peak and apologize for not getting you on my shelf for a longer period of time. I am working on that. This is still a fascinating story for me and I still love the flow. You have a good way of keeping the reader's interested and adding variety on your sentence and paragraph lengths. Still wishing you the best of luck and will hopefully have you back on my shelf soon, along with some of my friends. If you get a chance you should come check out some of the editing I have done on Catalaysia :) Your support has been really appreciated.

Auna June
Catalaysia: The Curse of Five

Very fascinating. It is really well written to, the words flow together. I am intrigued by how you are setting things up with Yukitora and his family moving, then his wife dying, and now his son is ill. It does seem to be a little drawn out, but you make up for that with the descriptions and the way you present your story. Great job. Best of luck and I look forward to backing when I get a chance.

Auna June
Catalaysia: The Curse of Five

Thanks for your comments. I have decided to go the POD route with this book because it is in a rather specialized genre. It's available on Lulu.com.

Very fascinating. It is really well written to, the words flow together. I am intrigued by how you are setting things up with Yukitora and his family moving, then his wife dying, and now his son is ill. It does seem to be a little drawn out, but you make up for that with the descriptions and the way you present your story. Great job. Best of luck and I look forward to backing when I get a chance.

Auna June
Catalaysia: The Curse of Five

Hi Nina,
I love stories set in the Samurai era, and your story is full of the culture and details of the place that the reader feels they are there. I wanted to read into the action but I found that all the flashbacks and backstory info dumps were slowing me down. Also the italics was annoying after a while particularly when the Japanese words are also italicised. Because of all this explanation stuff, I kept jumping ahead trying to work out where the real action was. I'd like to come back to read more again. Best wishes, Ian

This stoy is right up my street. I LOVE Japanese history and feel it is one of the most overlooked yet fascinating histories and is one that cries out for an author to do it justice. Excellent work, Nina, looking forward to reading some more.

Best of luck,

Jack

Thanks very much. I'm partly through your own wonderful book "Covenant of Shadows."

This stoy is right up my street. I LOVE Japanese history and feel it is one of the most overlooked yet fascinating histories and is one that cries out for an author to do it justice. Excellent work, Nina, looking forward to reading some more.

Best of luck,

Jack

Very interested in historical fiction - especially a book about a culture I know little about. Backed and starred for a well written manuscript! I look forward to reading more. Henry